POLL Does Everyone Lose Their Hair??

debbiek1 · 12-10-2007, 03:47 PM

so far no casual observer has said "gee, you are losing your hair" but i know it is lots thinner. i have to wash it every day or it gets real greasy and today i must have lost at least a 50 more hairs. one of these days i am going to collect them all up and actually count them. maybe it will be reassuring. maybe it just looks like a hundred hairs.
my D-I-L asked what i want for christmas. i told her a wig.
she thinks i am kidding but i'm not.

Mariposa Bella · 12-10-2007, 03:55 PM

Not anything unnormal.. Lose some, grow some..

Oregondaisy · 12-10-2007, 07:36 PM

I think I have lost about half of my hair. I used to not be able to wear baretts in my hair because it was so thick that I couldn't get them to close. Now my hair is so much thinner, that they fall out.

Nobody can tell, because I did have really thick hair, but I can sure tell. My pony tail is half the size it used to be. I sure wish I knew when it was going to stop. It has definitely slowed down
(thank you God!) but there is still way more than normal when I wash it and comb it wet. I use a very wide tooth comb so I don't pull on it, and besides all that there is in the shower, the comb is still very full. I am SO sick of this. I should have 100 lb weight loss to lose all of this, IMO!

debbiek1 · 12-10-2007, 08:17 PM

i bet if i had collected all the hair i lost it would weigh a half a pound. do you think i should revise my ticker ????

NM Sunshine · 12-11-2007, 01:16 PM

There is an article on MSN today that has answers to the hair loss. Below I quote it:
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<TABLE style="WIDTH: 1912pt; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=2549 border=0><COLGROUP><COL style="WIDTH: 140pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 6802" width=186><COL style="WIDTH: 140pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 6838" width=187><COL style="WIDTH: 48pt" span=34 width=64><TBODY><TR style="HEIGHT: 15pt" height=20><TD class=xl63 style="BORDER-RIGHT: #f0f0f0; BORDER-TOP: #f0f0f0; BORDER-LEFT: #f0f0f0; WIDTH: 1912pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: #f0f0f0; HEIGHT: 15pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; mso-ignore: colspan" width=2549 colSpan=36 height=20>If you have iron or protein deficiency—common with the caloric deprivation
of anyone suffering from an eating disorder—it is not unusual to experience
severe hair loss. That’s because the malnutrition forces the body to conserve
protein (the building block of all the body’s cells, including the hair) by shutting
down hair growth. And since more hair may also be shed—without being
replaced—the result can be a noticeable thinning over several months.
Thyroid disease (both an overactive thyroid and an underactive one)
can also show up as increased hair loss. Once the disease is controlled, hair growth
can usually be restored.

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**Kat817** · 12-11-2007, 04:14 PM

I had all my blood work done when the hair loss began, and everything come back normal. I attributed it to the change in diet, and the shock to the body. I know for a fact I was getting more than enough protein.

When the loss finally stopped, I breathed a massive sigh of relief....I was probably a bit premature in doing so! Just a few weeks ago I was diagnosed with a thyroid tumor, actually several of them, and had the center (the isthmus) and the entire right lobe removed. Now I get to see if the hair loss begins again...with more anesthetic, and more hormonal changes!
Boy will the fun never end???

Kat

mscathyl · 12-11-2007, 05:55 PM

The though of losing my hair scares me ,but I still want the surgery. Besides a woman I work with had LBS over a year ago and lost alittle over 100 lbs and she said she didn't have any hair loss at all . So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I won't lose my hair .

Oregondaisy · 12-11-2007, 08:21 PM

(((Kat))) I am sorry to hear about that. I hope everything is okay!

sc2va · 12-11-2007, 08:41 PM

I am an African American female and got my hair highlighted and boy did it come out!! Has anyone else experienced this?

gummykandi · 01-25-2008, 09:50 PM

Wow, I did not know that so may people lost hair, thats kind of disheartening, good that it comes back though...

Blund · 02-11-2008, 11:23 AM

Yikes! I have thin hair to begin with, I hope I dont have hair loss. I can deal with it though. Does anyone know why it doesn't seem to start falling out until several months after surgery? I think I'll start on the folic acid now!

Linda Lu · 02-11-2008, 06:05 PM

Nothing yet....only about 6 weeks post op though!

Blund · 02-12-2008, 09:14 AM

Sounds like our Drs aren't being up front about hair loss. Maybe it would discourage people from having the surgery. It will be a drag, but not worth being fat. I'm a hat person anyway!
Kat, I'm sorry for your new problems. It sucks getting old, I'm finding out!

coolcrystal · 02-12-2008, 09:27 AM

Blund - when I asked my doctor about it he made a fast comment and said, "if you take your protein and vitamins you won't have hair loss; its the people who don't do this that have it"... which I believe is a complete lie because I know people on here who have done all that and still had hairloss. So yeah, the docs aren't telling us everything.

maziemommy · 03-02-2008, 08:09 PM

I polled 25% but it seems a bit less than that. Pro-Diet. lady said proteins and fats are usually cut so low that hair is weak, dry, brittle, and falls out easy... keep up good fats, and tons of proteins. Now that seems to be working for me. Good luck to all.

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